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Senate Historical Office HUMPHREY, Hubert Horatio, Jr., (husband of Muriel Buck Humphrey), a Senator from Minnesota and a Vice President of the United States; born in Wallace, Codington County, S.Dak., May 27, 1911; attended the public schools of Doland, S.Dak., where his family had moved; graduated from Capitol College of Pharmacy, Denver, Colo., 1933 and the University of Minnesota 1939; earned a graduate degree from Louisiana State University 1940; pharmacist with Humphrey Drug Co., Huron, S.Dak., 1933-1937; assistant instructor of political science at Louisiana State University 1939-1940 and University of Minnesota 1940-1941; State director of war production training and reemployment and State chief of Minnesota war service program 1942; assistant director, War Manpower Commission 1943; professor in political science at Macalester College (Minn.) 1943-1944; radio news commentator 1944-1945; mayor

 of Minneapolis 1945-1948; elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate in 1948; reelected in 1954, and 1960 and served from January 3, 1949, until December 29, 1964, when he resigned to become Vice President; Democratic whip 1961-1964; known in the Senate as the Happy Warrior; chairman, Select Committee on Disarmament (Eighty-fourth and Eighty-fifth Congresses); elected Vice President of the United States on the Democratic ticket with Lyndon Johnson in 1964, and served from January 20, 1965, until January 20, 1969; unsuccessful Democratic nominee for President of the United States 1968; resumed teaching at Macalester College and the University of Minnesota 1969-1970; chairman, board of consultants, Encyclopedia Britannica Educational Corp.; elected in 1970 to the United States Senate; reelected in 1976 and served from January 3, 197

1, until his death in office; the post of Deputy President pro tempore of the Senate was created for him and he held it from January 5, 1977, until his death in Waverly, Minn., January 13, 1978; chairman, Joint Economic Committee (Ninety-fourth Congress); unprecedented sessions of the House and Senate were held in his honor in October 1977, when he was gravely ill; lay in state in the Rotunda of the U.S.

Capitol, January 14-15, 1978; interment in Lakewood Cemetery, Minneapolis, Minn.; posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom on June 9, 1980. Bibliography American National Biography; Humphrey, Hubert. The Education of a Public Man: My Life and Politics. 1976. New ed. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1991; Thurber, Timothy N. The Politics of Equality: Hubert H. Humphrey and the African American Freedom Struggle. New York: Columbia University Press, 1999. DiscoverLBJ LBJ Presidential Library About DiscoverLBJ is the LBJ Presidential Library's online digital archive. The site is currently in BETA mode as we are in the process of migrating and digitizing new content. Learn more . Resources As a start, we recommend reviewing the List of Holdings for a true description of the library’s collections of documents, photographs, audio, and moving image records. Featured Online and searchable for the first time, explore Lady Bird Johnson's daily diary and personal diary. The collections feature audio and transcripts.

Hubert Humphrey (Vice President) - Pics, Videos, Dating, & News Hubert Humphrey Hubert Humphrey Male Hubert Horatio Humphrey, Jr. served under President Lyndon B. Johnson as the 38th Vice President of the United States. Humphrey twice served as a United States Senator from Minnesota, and served as Democratic Majority Whip. He was a founder of the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party and Americans for Democratic Action. He also served as Mayor of Minneapolis, Minnesota from 1945 to 1948.… Read More related links It's Not Always About Profits Ocala Google News - Aug 28, 2011 'A society will be judged, <mark>Hubert Humphrey</mark> used to say, not by its wealth, but by how it treats its poorest and most vulnerable people.

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He died of cancer in 1978, while still a senator, with characteristic joyful aplomb, and with the world' Naglrep's Longstanding Commitment To Non Profit Causes Out Impact Google News - Aug 20, 2011 'In May, the National Association of Gay &amp; Lesbian Real Estate Professionals (NAGLREP) proudly attended the 2011 <mark>Hubert Humphrey</mark> Civil &amp; Human Rights Award Dinner in Washington, DC where they met with Joe Solmonese, HRC President and <mark>Hubert Humphrey</mark>' Learn about the memorable moments in the evolution of Hubert Humphrey. CHILDHOOD 1911 Birth Born in Wallace, South Dakota in 1911, Humphrey attended the University of Minnesota before earning his pharmacist license from the Capitol College of Pharmacy in 1931. … Read More He helped run his father's pharmacy until 1937 when he returned to academia, graduating with a master's degree from Louisiana State University in 1940, where he was a political science instructor. He returned to Minnesota during World War II and became a supervisor for the Works Progress Administration.

He was then appointed state director of the Minnesota war service program before becoming the assistant director of the War Manpower Commission. Read Less TWENTIES 1931 20 Years Old … In the late 1920s, a severe economic downturn hit Doland; both of the town's banks closed and Humphrey's father struggled to keep his drugstore open. <br /><br />After his son graduated from Doland's high school, Hubert Humphrey Sr. left Doland and opened a new drugstore in the larger town of Huron, South Dakota, (population 11,000), where he hoped to improve his fortunes. Because of the family's financial struggles, Humphrey had to leave the University of Minnesota after just one year. Read Less He earned a pharmacist's license from the Capitol College of Pharmacy in Denver, Colorado (completing a two-year licensure program in just six months), and spent the years from 1931 to 1937 helping his father run the family drugstore.

… Read More Both father and son were innovative businessmen in finding ways to attract customers to their drugstore: "to supplement their business, the Humphreys had become manufacturers of patent medicines for both hogs and humans. A sign featuring a wooden pig was hung over the drugstore to tell the public about this unusual service. Farmers got the message, and it was Humphrey's that became known as the farmer's drugstore." One biographer noted that "while Hubert Jr. minded the store and stirred the concoctions in the basement, Hubert Sr. went on the road selling "Humphrey's BTV" (Body Tone Veterinary), a mineral supplement and dewormer for hogs, and "Humphrey's Chest Oil" and "Humphrey's Sniffles" for two-legged sufferers." Humphrey himself later wrote that "we made "Humphrey's Sniffles", a substitute for Vick's Nose Drops. I felt ours were better. Vick's used mineral oil, which is not absorbent, and we used a vegetable-oil base, which was.

I added benzocaine, a local anesthetic, so that even if the sniffles didn't get better, you felt it less." The various "Humphrey cures worked well enough and constituted an important part of the family income the farmers that bought the medicines were good customers." Over time "Humphrey's Drug Store" became a profitable enterprise and the family again prospered. Read Less 1936 25 Years Old They were married in 1936 and remained married until Humphrey's death nearly 42 years later. … Read More They had four children: Hubert Humphrey III, Nancy, Robert, and Douglas. Unlike many prominent politicians, Humphrey never became a millionaire; one biographer noted that "For much of his life he was short of money to live on, and his relentless drive to attain the White House seemed at times like one long, losing struggle to raise enough campaign funds to get there." To help boost his salary, Humphrey frequently took paid outside speaking engagements. Through most of his years as a U.S. Senator and Vice President, he lived in a middle-class housing development in Chevy Chase, Maryland.

In 1958, Hubert and Muriel used their savings and his speaking fees to build a lakefront home in Waverly, Minnesota, about 40 miles west of Minneapolis.<br /><br /> During the Second World War Humphrey tried three times to join the armed forces, but failed. His first two attempts were to join the Navy, first as a commissioned officer and then as an enlisted man. He was rejected by the Navy both times due to color blindness. He then tried to enlist in the Army in December 1944, but failed the physical exam due to a double hernia, color blindness, and calcification of the lungs. Despite his attempts to join the military, one biographer would note that "all through his political life, Humphrey was dogged by the charge that he was a draft dodger" during the war. Read Less Show Less Humphrey did not enjoy working as a pharmacist, and his dream remained to earn a doctorate in political science and become a college professor. In August 1937, he told his father that he wanted to return to the University of Minnesota. … Read More Hubert Sr.

tried to convince his son not to leave by offering him a full partnership in the drugstore, but Hubert Jr. refused and told his father "how depressed I was, almost physically ill from the work, the dust storms, the conflict between my desire to do something and be somebody and my loyalty to him he replied "Hubert, if you aren't happy, then you ought to do something about it." Read Less In 1937 Humphrey returned to the University of Minnesota and earned a Bachelor of Arts in 1939. … Read More He was a member of Phi Delta Chi Fraternity. Read Less He also earned a master's degree from Louisiana State University in 1940, serving as an assistant instructor of political science there. … Read More One of his classmates was Russell B. Long, a future U.S. Senator from Louisiana. Read Less He then became an instructor and doctoral student at the University of Minnesota from 1940 to 1941 (joining the American Federation of Teachers), and was a supervisor for the Works Progress Administration (WPA).

… Read More Humphrey was a star debater on the University of Minnesota's debate team; one of his debate teammates was future Minnesota Governor and US Secretary of Agriculture Orville Freeman. Read Less In the 1940 presidential campaign Humphrey and future University of Minnesota president Malcolm Moos debated the merits of Franklin D. Roosevelt, the Democratic candidate, and Wendell Willkie, the Republican candidate, on a Minneapolis radio station. Humphrey supported Roosevelt. Humphrey soon became active in Minneapolis politics, and as a result he never finished his PhD. In 1934 Hubert began dating Muriel Buck, a bookkeeper and graduate of local Huron College. THIRTIES Show Less Humphrey was elected to the Senate in 1948, the year his proposal of ending racial segregation was included in the party platform at the Democratic National Convention, where he gave one of his most notable speeches on the convention floor, suggesting the Democratic Party "walk into the sunshine of human rights." … Read More He served three terms in the Senate from 1949 to 1964 and was the Democratic Majority Whip from 1961 to 1964.

During his tenure, Humphrey was the lead author of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, introduced the first initiative to create the Peace Corps, sponsored the clause of the McCarran Act to threaten concentration camps for 'subversives', proposed making Communist Party membership a felony and chaired the Select Committee on Disarmament. Read Less The Democratic Party of 1948 was split between liberals who thought the federal government should actively protect civil rights for racial minorities, and social conservatives (mostly Southern Democrats) who believed that states should be able to enforce traditional racial segregation within their borders. … As a result of the Convention's vote, the Mississippi and one half of the Alabama delegation walked out of the hall. Many Southern Democrats were so enraged at this affront to their "way of life" that they formed the Dixiecrat party and nominated their own presidential candidate, Governor Strom Thurmond of South Carolina. The goal of the Dixiecrats was to take Southern states away from Truman and thus cause his defeat. The Southern Democrats reasoned that after such a defeat the national Democratic Party would never again aggressively pursue a pro-civil rights agenda. However, the move backfired.

Although the strong civil rights plank adopted at the Convention cost Truman the support of the Dixiecrats, it gained him many votes from blacks, especially in large northern cities. As a result, Truman won a stunning upset victory over his Republican opponent, Thomas E. Dewey. Truman's victory demonstrated that the Democratic Party could win presidential elections without the "Solid South", and thus weakened Southern Democrats instead of strengthening their position. Read Less Pulitzer Prize-winning historian David McCullough has written that Humphrey probably did more to get Truman elected in 1948 than anyone other than Truman himself. Minnesota elected Humphrey to the United States Senate in 1948 on the DFL ticket, defeating James M. Shields in the primary for the DFL nomination with 89% of the vote, and unseating incumbent Republican Joseph H. Ball with 60% of the vote in the general election. … During this period, he served in the 81st, 82nd, 83rd, 84th, 85th, 86th, 87th, and a portion of the 88th Congress.

Read Less Initially, Humphrey's support of civil rights led to his being ostracized by Southern Democrats, who dominated most of the Senate leadership positions and who wanted to punish Humphrey for proposing the successful civil rights platform at the 1948 Convention. … Read More Senator Richard Russell Jr. of Georgia, a leader of Southern Democrats, once remarked to other Senators as Humphrey walked by, "Can you imagine the people of Minnesota sending that damn fool down here to represent them?" However, Humphrey refused to be intimidated and stood his ground; his integrity, passion and eloquence eventually earned him the respect of even most of the Southerners. His acceptance by the Southerners was also helped a great deal when Humphrey became a protÃ©gÃ© of Senate Majority Leader Lyndon B. Johnson of Texas. Humphrey became known for his advocacy of liberal causes (such as civil rights, arms control, a nuclear test ban, food stamps, and humanitarian foreign aid), and for his long and witty speeches.

During the period of McCarthyism (1950â1954), Humphrey was accused of being "soft on communism", despite having been one of the founders of the anti-communist liberal organization Americans for Democratic Action, having been a staunch supporter of the Truman Administration's efforts to combat the growth of the Soviet Union, and having fought Communist political activities in Minnesota and elsewhere. Read Less 1949 38 Years Old He took office on January 3, 1949, becoming the first Democrat elected senator from the state of Minnesota since before the Civil War. … Read More Humphrey's father died that year, and Humphrey stopped using the "Jr." suffix on his name. Read Less 1950 39 Years Old In addition, Humphrey "was a sponsor of the clause in the McCarran Act of 1950 threatening concentration camps for 'subversives'", and in 1954 proposed to make mere membership in the Communist Party a felony â a proposal that failed. … Read More He was chairman of the Select Committee on Disarmament (84th and 85th Congresses).

Although "Humphrey was an enthusiastic supporter of every U.S. war from 1938 to 1978", in February 1960, he introduced a bill to establish a National Peace Agency. With another former pharmacist, Representative Carl Durham, Humphrey cosponsored the Durham-Humphrey Amendment, which amended the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, defining two specific categories for medications, legend (prescription) and over-the-counter (OTC). As Democratic whip in the Senate in 1964, Humphrey was instrumental in the passage of the Civil Rights Act of that year. He was a lead author of the text of the civil rights act, alongside Republican Senate Republican Minority Leader Everett Dirksen of Illinois. Humphrey's consistently cheerful and upbeat demeanor, and his forceful advocacy of liberal causes, led him to be nicknamed "The Happy Warrior" by many of his Senate colleagues and political journalists. Read Less FORTIES Show Less In 1960, Humphrey ran again for the Democratic presidential nomination against fellow Senator John F. Kennedy in the primaries.

… Read More Their first meeting was in the Wisconsin Primary, where Kennedy's well-organized and well-funded campaign overcame Humphrey's energetic but poorly funded effort. Kennedy's attractive brothers, sisters, and wife Jacqueline combed the state looking for votes. At one point Humphrey memorably complained that he "felt like an independent merchant competing against a chain store". Humphrey later wrote in his memoirs that "Muriel and I and our 'plain folks' entourage were no match for the glamour of Jackie Kennedy and the other Kennedy women, for Peter Lawford and Frank Sinatra singing their commercial 'High Hopes'. Jack Kennedy brought family and Hollywood to Wisconsin. The people loved it and the press ate it up." Kennedy won the Wisconsin primary, but by a smaller margin than anticipated; some commentators argued that Kennedy's victory margin had come almost entirely from areas that were heavily Roman Catholic, and that Protestants actually supported Humphrey. As a result, Humphrey refused to quit the race and decided to run against Kennedy again in the West Virginia primary.

According to one biographer "Humphrey thought his chances were good in West Virginia, one of the few states that had backed him in his losing race for vice-president four years earlier West Virginia was more rural than urban, which seemed to invite Humphrey's folksy stump style. The state, moreover, was a citadel of labor. It was depressed; unemployment had hit hard; and coal miners' families were hungry. Read Less Humphrey did win the South Dakota and District of Columbia primaries, which JFK did not enter. At the 1960 Democratic National Convention, he received 41 votes even though he was no longer an active presidential candidate. Humphrey's defeat in 1960 had a profound influence on his thinking; after the primaries he told friends that, as a relatively poor man in politics, he was unlikely to ever become President unless he served as Vice-President first. … Read More Humphrey believed that only in this way could he raise the funds and nationwide organization and visibility he would need to win the Democratic nomination.

Read Less FIFTIES 1961 50 Years Old His colleagues selected him as majority whip in 1961, a position he held until he left the Senate on December 29, 1964, to assume the vice presidency. Show Less … Hubert Horatio Humphrey Jr. (May 27, 1911January 13, 1978) was an American politician who served as the 38th Vice President of the United States under President Lyndon B. Johnson, from 1965 to 1969. Humphrey twice served in the United States Senate, representing Minnesota from 1949 to 1964 and 1971 to 1978. Read Less He was the nominee of the Democratic Party in the 1968 presidential election, losing to the Republican nominee, Richard M. Nixon. After Johnson made the surprise announcement that he would not seek reelection in March 1968, Humphrey launched his campaign for the presidency the following month. … Read More Humphrey's main Democratic challengers were anti-Vietnam War Senators Eugene McCarthy and Robert F. Kennedy.

Humphrey, who was loyal to the Johnson administration's policies on the Vietnam War as Vice President, saw opposition from many within his own party and avoided the primaries to focus on receiving the delegates of non-primary states at the Democratic Convention. Humphrey's delegate strategy succeeded in clinching the nomination, choosing Senator Edmund Muskie as his running mate. With the assassination of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert Kennedy that year, and heightened opposition to the Vietnam War, the convention saw major protests which later proved costly to Humphrey's campaign. Read Less On November 5, 1968, Humphrey lost to former Vice President Richard Nixon in the general election. … Read More Humphrey then returned to teaching in Minnesota before returning to the Senate in 1971. Read Less After his narrow defeat in the 1968 presidential election, Humphrey wrote that "After four years as Vice-President... … Read More I had lost some of my personal identity and personal forcefulness....

I ought not to have let a man Johnson who was going to be a former President dictate my future."<br /><br /> While he was Vice President, Hubert Humphrey was the subject of a satirical song by songwriter/musician Tom Lehrer entitled "Whatever Became of Hubert?" The song addressed how some liberals and progressives felt let down by Humphrey, who had become a much more mute figure as Vice President than he had been as a senator. The song goes "Whatever became of Hubert? Has anyone heard a thing? Once he shone on his own, now he sits home alone and waits for the phone to ring. Once a fiery liberal spirit, ah, but now when he speaks he must clear it. " Read Less During these years Humphrey was a repeated and favorite guest of Johnny Carson on The Tonight Show. He also struck up a friendship with Frank Sinatra, who supported his campaign for president in 1968 before his conversion to the Republican party in the early 1970s, and was perhaps most on notice in the fall of 1977 when Sinatra was the star attraction and host of a tribute to a then-ailing Humphrey.

… Read More He also appeared on The Dean Martin Celebrity Roast in 1973. Read Less As 1968 began, it looked as if President Johnson, despite the rapidly decreasing approval rating of his Vietnam War policies, would easily win the Democratic nomination for a second time. Humphrey was widely expected to remain Johnson's running mate for reelection in 1968. … Read More Johnson was challenged by Senator Eugene McCarthy of Minnesota, who ran on an anti-Vietnam War platform. With the backing of out-of-state anti-war college students and activists while campaigning in the New Hampshire primary, McCarthy, who was not expected to be a serious contender for the Democratic nomination, nearly defeated Johnson, finishing with a surprising 42% of the vote to Johnson's 49%. A few days after the New Hampshire primary, after months of contemplation and originally intending to support Johnson's bid for reelection, Senator Robert Kennedy of New York also entered the race on an anti-war platform. Read Less On March 31, 1968, a week before the Wisconsin primary, where polls showed a strong standing for McCarthy, President Lyndon B. Johnson stunned the nation by withdrawing from his race for a second full term.

Following the announcement from Johnson, Humphrey announced his presidential candidacy on April 27, 1968. … Read More Declaring his candidacy in a speech in Washington, D.C. alongside Senators Fred Harris of Oklahoma and Walter Mondale of Minnesota (who both served as the co-chairs to his campaign), Humphrey stated: <br /><br /> Here we are, just as we ought to be, here we are, the people, here we are the spirit of dedication, here we are the way politics ought to be in America, the politics of happiness, politics of purpose, politics of joy; and that's the way it's going to be, all the way, too, from here on out. We seek an America able to preserve and nurture all the basic rights of free expression, yet able to reach across the divisions that too often separate race from race, region from region, young from old, worker from scholar, rich from poor. We seek an America able to do this in the higher knowledge that our goals and ideals are worthy of conciliation and personal sacrifice. Read Less 1970 59 Years Old Initially he had not planned to return to political life, but an unexpected opportunity changed his mind.

McCarthy, who was up for re-election in 1970, realized that he had only a slim chance of winning even re-nomination (he had angered his party by opposing Johnson and Humphrey for the 1968 presidential nomination) and declined to run. LATE ADULTHOOD 1971 60 Years Old Humphrey won the nomination, defeated Republican Congressman Clark MacGregor, and returned to the U.S. Senate on January 3, 1971. Hubert Humphrey - Vice President to President Lyndon Johnson} Hubert Humphrey U.S. Vice President Hubert Humphrey 4.0 1 user review Hubert Humphrey, a member of the Democratic Party , took office as the 38th Vice President of the United States on January 20, 1965 at age 53. Humphrey served as VP to President Lyndon Johnson for 4 years through January 20, 1969. He was born in Wallace, South Dakota and received an education from University of Minnesota, Louisiana State University, and Capitol College of Pharmacy. See all U.S. Vice Presidents Write a Review Hubert H.

Humphrey Biography (U.S. Vice President) Died: 13 January 1978 (cancer) Birthplace: Wallace, South Dakota Best known as: Vice President of the United States, 1965-69 Hubert Horatio Humphrey, Jr. was the vice president of the United States under President Lyndon Johnson from 1965-69. He was then the Democratic candidate for president in 1968, when he was narrowly defeated by Republican Richard Nixon . Hubert Humphrey had a long career in politics, first as mayor of Minneapolis, Minnesota (1943-48) then as a U.S. Senator from Minnesota (1948-1964) before being picked for the vice presidency. Humphrey was a champion of civil rights and social reform, and played a major role in adding a civil rights plank to the Democratic platform in the volatile Democratic Convention of 1948. Humphrey was nicknamed "The Happy Warrior" for his sunny demeanor and his passionate support of liberal causes. After his defeat in 1968, Hubert Humphrey served again in the U.S.

Senate from 1971 until his death in 1978. He died of cancer while still in office, and his wife, Muriel Buck Humphrey, was appointed by Minnesota's governor to finish his term. Extra credit: The Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome, the major Minneapolis sports arena, is named for Humphrey. Copyright © 1998-2017 by Who2?, LLC. All rights reserved. Hubert Humphrey - Vice Presidents who ran for President - Pictures - CBS News Vice Presidents who ran for President Next Joe Biden After months of speculation about the vice president's possible bid for the White House, Joe Biden formally announced Wednesday that he will not run for president. "I believe we're out of time -- the time necessary to mount a winning campaign," Biden said in a speech from the White House Rose Garden. He may have also realized just how hard it is to run for president as a sitting VP. Although just one heartbeat from the presidency, history seems to suggest that being Vice President doesn't make it any easier to win the top job.

Here is a list of Vice Presidents who have made a run for the Oval Office: Credit: Carlos Barria / Reuters John Adams Vice President from 1789-1797; President from 1797-1801. Adams was the first Vice President of the United States, serving under George Washington. After Washington refused a third term, the Federalist ticket went to Adams, who won in the general election in 1796 over Democratic-Republican Thomas Jefferson in a fierce third presidential election. Although Jefferson was not Adams' running mate, he was elected Vice President. (According to voting procedure back then, the position of VP went to whoever got the second largest amount of Electoral College votes.) Which leads us to... Thomas Jefferson Vice President from 1797-1801; President from 1801-1809. Unlike other VPs, Thomas Jefferson succeeded his predecessor by taking the Presidency away from him. Jefferson ran against Adams in the Election of 1800, and won.

(Remember how Jefferson and Adams ran against each other in 1796?) After that happened, the Twelfth Amendment was ratified to outline voting procedure and was used in the next election. Starting in 1804, Presidents and Vice Presidents were voted for separately to avoid these awkward pairings. Credit: Library of Congress Martin Van Buren Vice President from 1833-1837; President from 1837-1841. As Vice President under Andrew Jackson, Martin Van Buren enjoyed a greater influence than most Vice Presidents, especially when it came to the nation's finances. Jackson respected him, and Van Buren received the Democratic nomination for the presidency for the 1836 election. He faced multiple Whig candidates and was elected President. He served one term, losing the 1840 election to Whig William Henry Harrison. Credit: Library of Congress John C. Breckenridge Vice President from 1857-1861. By the time James Buchanan's Vice President, Kentucky native John C. Breckenridge, was running for President in 1860, the country was on the brink of civil war.

Democrat Breckenridge vehemently argued in support of preserving the union, but Northern Democrats broke away from Southern Democrats and put forth Stephen Douglas as their nominee. Southern Democrats chose Breckenridge, splitting up the party. Breckenridge gained support from Southern states but could not match the support that Republican Abraham Lincoln had in Northern States. Lincoln won the election with 180 electoral votes to Breckenridge's 72. And the rest is history. Credit: Library of Congress John Nance Garner Vice President from 1933 - 1941. Vice President under Franklin Delano Roosevelt, John Nance Garner vied for the Democratic Party's ticket in 1940, after FDR's second term. FDR called into the convention expressing no desire to run, which led to an uproar of delegates begging him to accept the nomination (as many historians say was his plan all along). This move ended Garner's presidential bid before it even began. FDR also chose a different running mate for his third term, leading us to... Credit: Library of Congress Henry A. Wallace Vice President from 1941 - 1945.

Vice President for FDR's third term, Henry Wallace was a controversial choice from the start. The liberal running mate eventually clashed with the president, leading FDR to select Harry S. Truman as his running mate for his fourth term. Wallace was then appointed Secretary of Commerce by the president a month before Roosevelt's death. Wallace held the position until 1946 when Truman fired him. (Note: Truman fired all of FDR's cabinet members. Wallace was actually the last to be let go.) Wallace proceeded to run for President against Truman in the 1948 election on the Progressive Party ticket and received zero Electoral College votes. Truman was Vice President, but became President when FDR died, so technically, VP Truman was President Truman for his own re-election. (See Teddy Roosevelt and Lyndon Johnson for similar circumstances.) Credit: Library of Congress Richard Nixon Vice President from 1953 - 1961; President from 1969-1974. Richard Nixon was Vice President under Dwight D. Eisenhower and received the Republican Party's nomination for President in 1960. He was then defeated by Democrat John F. Kennedy in the general election.

Two years later, he ran for Governor of California and also lost again. In 1968, Nixon received the Republican Party's presidential nomination and became America's first Vice President to be elected President after a gap in holding public office. Credit: AP Hubert Humphrey Vice President from 1965-1969. The election of 1968 would pit a Vice President against a former Vice President. After Lyndon B. Johnson announced he would not run for re-election, his Vice President Hubert Humphrey threw his hat into the ring. Although he clinched the Democratic Party's nomination, he lost the election to Richard Nixon. But Humphrey did not leave public office for long. In 1971, the one-time Senator returned to the U.S. Senate, and remained there until his death seven years later. Credit: Associated Press Walter Mondale Vice President from 1977 - 1981. Walter Mondale was Vice President under Jimmy Carter, whose administration ended after one term, when Republicans Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush beat the duo in 1980. Mondale couldn't stay off the campaign trail for long.

He ran against Reagan/Bush again in 1984, this time as the Democrat's presidential candidate. He lost in an Electoral College landslide, though he retained 40% of the popular vote. Credit: AP George H.W. Bush Vice President from 1981-1989; President from 1989-1993. George H.W. Bush is the first President in recent history to be elected following two terms as Vice President. He could not match it with two terms as President, however, as Bill Clinton defeated him in the 1992 election. Credit: AP Al Gore Vice President from 1993-2001. Looking to follow in George H.W. Bush's footsteps as a two-term Vice President elected to President, Al Gore ran for office in 2000. He ran virtually unopposed for the Democratic nomination. And although he won the popular vote in the general election against George H.W. Bush's son, Texas Governor George W. Bush, Gore lost in the Electoral College in a recount contest that was ultimately decided by the Supreme Court. Credit: AP Overview - Hubert H.

Humphrey: Mayor, Senator, and Vice-President - LibGuides at Minnesota Historical Society Library Hubert H. Humphrey: Mayor, Senator, and Vice-President MNHS loans out most microfilm materials. Contact your local library for more information and assistance with this service. Online Research Some items such as newspapers, articles, photos and objects are available online. Look for links within this guide. Other Libraries Many books listed in the Secondary Sources page can be borrowed from other libraries. Related Research Guides & Webpages A guide listing the resources available at the MNHS library. Overview Hubert H. Humphrey burst onto the Minnesota political scene in 1945, when he was elected mayor of Minneapolis. To the office, he brought a high level of energy that fueled his populist spirit and reformer's zeal. At that time, anti-Semitism and discrimination against blacks and other minorities were rife in Minneapolis. Humphrey set out to change the social climate through moral suasion, and the unfair policies and practices, through political and legislative action. It was a dangerous course that he set for himself in 1940s U.S., with segregation and Jim Crow laws still firmly in place.

In 1948, under his leadership, Minneapolis enacted the nation's first municipal fair employment law. Buoyed, he went on to deliver a fiery speech at the 1948 Democratic national convention, an impassioned plea urging that a strong civil rights plank be included in the Democratic platform. Although the speech was not well received, Humphrey was instrumental in spurring the convention to add a civil rights plank to their platform. That November, Minnesotans elected Humphrey to the United States Senate, making him the first Democrat from Minnesota ever elected to that exalted position. Apprenticeship to Senator Lyndon B. Johnson of Texas, a savvy student of power, then in his ascendancy, helped Humphrey to gain eventual "admittance to the club." A voluble and passionate speaker, he could wind up a crowd in the best tradition of evangelistic oratory, and he was both admired and derided for it. Minnesotans re-elected Humphrey to the Senate in 1954 and in 1960, thus making possible his part in helping to pass the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

Humphrey served in the Senate until he was selected to be Lyndon Johnson's running mate in the presidential campaign of 1964. Johnson and Humphrey won, but the victory was bittersweet. It ushered in the most conflicted and disheartening years of his political career--years of being torn between his need to remain loyal to Johnson's policies and conduct of the Vietnam War, and his own uneasiness about the course the nation was on. His failure to take a clear stand against the war cost him dearly. When he ran for president in 1968, he lost to Richard Nixon by the slim margin of 1% of the popular vote. MNHS Reference Staff Hubert Humphrey Gravesite - Minneapolis, Minnesota Hubert Humphrey Gravesite - Lakewood Cemetery Address: 3600 Hennepin Avenue, Minneapolis, Minnesota Humphrey served as United States Vice President for Lyndon Johnson. The purpose of this site is to provide researchers, students, teachers, politicians, journalists, and citizens a complete resource guide to the US Presidents. Feel free to make a link to this or any other page on this web site.

If you would like to suggest a Presidential link, report a broken link, or have any comments please contact presidents@presidentsusa.net Biography of Hubert Humphrey 1911 – 1978 Who was Hubert Humphrey? Hubert Horatio Humphrey, Jr. was an American politician who served as the 38th Vice President of the United States under President Lyndon B. Johnson, from 1965 to 1969. Humphrey twice served in the United States Senate, representing Minnesota from 1949 to 1964 and 1971 to 1978. He was the nominee of the Democratic Party in the 1968 presidential election, losing to the Republican nominee, Richard Nixon. Born in Wallace, South Dakota, Humphrey attended the University of Minnesota before earning his pharmacist license from the Capitol College of Pharmacy in 1931. He helped run his father's pharmacy until 1937 when he returned to academia, graduating with his masters from Louisiana State University in 1940, where he was a political science instructor. He returned to Minnesota during WWII and became a supervisor for the Works Progress Administration.

He was then appointed state director of the Minnesota war service program before becoming the assistant director of the War Manpower Commission. In 1943, Humphrey became a Professor of political science at Macalester College and ran a failed campaign for Mayor of Minneapolis. Humphrey helped found the Minnesota Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party in 1944, and in 1945, became the DFL candidate for Mayor of Minneapolis for a second time, winning with 61% of the vote. Humphrey served as mayor from 1945 to 1948, he was reelected and became the co-founder of the liberal anti-communism group Americans for Democratic Action in 1947. Famous Quotes: This, then, is the test we must set for ourselves; not to march alone but to march in such a way that others will wish to join us. The pursuit of peace resembles the building of a great cathedral. It is the work of a generation. In concept it requires a master-architect; in execution, the labors of many.

Fortunately, the time has long passed when people liked to regard the United States as some kind of melting pot, taking men and women from every part of the world and converting them into standardized, homogenized Americans. We are, I think, much more mature and wise today. Just as we welcome a world of diversity, so we glory in an America of diversity -- an America all the richer for the many different and distinctive strands of which it is woven. Never answer a question from a farmer. To be realistic today is to be visionary. To be realistic is to be starry-eyed. For the first time in the history of mankind, one generation literally has the power to destroy the past, the present and the future, the power to bring time to an end. The great challenge which faces us is to assure that, in our society of big-ness, we do not strangle the voice of creativity, that the rules of the game do not come to overshadow its purpose, that the grand orchestration of society leaves ample room for the man who marches to the music of another drummer. People in places many of us never heard of, whose names we can't pronounce or even spell, are speaking up for themselves.

They speak in languages we once classified as exotic but whose mastery is now essential for our diplomats and businessmen. But what they say is very much the same the world over. They want a decent standard of living. They want human dignity and a voice in their own futures. They want their children to grow up strong and healthy and free. I think the worst thing this nation could do for humanity would be to leave any uncertainty as to our will, our purpose and our capacity to carry out our purpose. There are those who say to you -- we are rushing this issue of civil rights. I say we are 172 years late.

Question: Hubert Humphrey served as Vice-President to which US President?
Answer: Lyndon Baines Johnson